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In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.
I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.
I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.
Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.
For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.
Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.
We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.
The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.
If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.
There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.
Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well.
For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it.
That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will.
With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
There are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't.
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.
As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it.
A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.
Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.
What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.
What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.
People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover.
I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)
I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)
We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.
America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!
If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.
The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.
Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.
A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.
It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.
Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.
If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?